Foundation Year Teaching Resources
Teach Starter has an extensive collection of Foundation year resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum. They have been created for primary school children aged four through to six years, featuring simple and clear layouts, minimal text, interactive elements, appealing images and colourful illustrations. The collection encompasses a range of resource types and student activities including worksheets, posters, educational games, interactive PowerPoints, engaging widgets and so much more! Using Teach Starter resources in your classroom will help your foundation students communicate with peers, teachers and known adults, assisting with the development of independence, speaking, listening, language and comprehension skills as they begin the smooth transition to the early years of school life. In their first year of education, a child should develop understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning, and observe and explore the world around them.
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Beginning Sounds Game Boards
Use these beginning sounds game boards to develop your students' letter-sound correspondence with the alphabet.
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Tap It! Letter Sound Recognition Game
Use this letter sound recognition game to help students apply letter-sound correspondences.
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Colour by Letter Worksheet Pack (SATPIN)
Help students with their recognition of the letters – s,a,t,p,i,n with this colour by letter worksheet pack.
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Heavier or Lighter? Sorting Activity
Sort cards into heavier and lighter headings after looking at the balance scales on each card with this mass sorting activity.
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Heavy vs. Light Roll and Colour Activity
Explore items and decide which is heaviest and lightest in this fun and engaging roll and colour activity.
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Beat the Blast Off! CVC, CVCC and CCVC Spelling Game
Use this collaborative partner game to familiarise your students with some of the most common CVC, CVCC and CCVC words.
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Trace, Draw and Order Sentences Worksheets
Use this set of sentence cut-and-paste worksheets to help your students build simple sentences.
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Identify and Colour 2D Shapes Worksheet
Use this 2D shapes worksheet to help your students identify 8 of the most common two-dimensional shapes.
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Finger Counting Cut and Paste
Count to ten using this finger counting cut and paste worksheet.
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Counting to 20 Cut and Paste Worksheet
Count objects within 20 and match the total to its written number on this 2-page cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Animal Features Playdough Mats
Use our Animal Playdough Mats to introduce your Foundations students to the physical features of animals.
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Free Printable Butterfly Outline Pack
Decorate your classroom with a flock of colourful butterflies using printable butterfly cut-out templates.
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Super Six Reading Comprehension Question Cards
Help students with six different comprehension skills with this set of super 6 comprehension task cards and mats.
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Making Good Choices Mini-Book
Help your students develop strategies for making good choices with this printable social story mini-book.
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My Favourite Season Worksheet
Activate your students' prior knowledge about the seasons using this worksheet which prompts them to state which is their favourite season and justify their choice.
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Printable Graphic Organiser Worksheets
A collection of 14 different blank graphic organisers to use in a variety of ways in all subject areas.
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What's the Season? Teaching Slides
Use this teaching presentation to help your students explore the four seasons and how they affect everyday life.
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Sight Word Lists – Teacher Resource Binder
Use this collection of checklists, student pages and quick-check assessments when reviewing Dolch sight words spanning from pre-primer to year 3.
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Beginning, Middle and End Mini-Book - The Three Little Pigs
Teach your students about the beginning, middle and end of a story with this mini-book retell of The Three Little Pigs.
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Real-World 3D Objects - Colouring Worksheet
Explore three-dimensional objects in the real world with this colouring worksheet.
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Parts of a Plant - Poster Set
Provide your students with visuals and information highlighting the parts of a plant with a pack of printable posters for your classroom.
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Printable Person Outline - Craft Template
Create fun likenesses of your students and famous figures with a printable person online template.
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Part-Part-Whole - Addition and Subtraction Teaching Presentation
Teach your students how to effectively use a bar model to solve 1-digit addition and subtraction number facts using the part-part-whole strategy.
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Superhero Cards for Dad's Day
Make a superhero dad a special Father's Day card this year with a printable cards for Dad's Day!
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Dad Sits - Decodable Reader (Level 1)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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I Am Stan - Decodable Reader (Level 1)
Develop confident, successful readers with this phonics-based, printable decodable book.
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Decodable Readers Teacher Support Pack
A set of free supplementary resources to support the implementation of Teach Starter’s series of phonics-based decodable readers.
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Squiggles-Themed Desk Name Plates
Customise and edit these fun Squiggles desk name plates for students in your class.
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Pastel Flag Themed Editable Desk Name Plates
Create calming student name plates with these Pastel Flag inspired customisable desk name plates.
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Abstract Art-Themed Desk Name Plates
Customise and edit these fun Abstract Art themed desk name plates for students in your class.
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Maths About Me - All About Me Template
Get to know your new students with these Maths-themed All About Me templates.
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Phonics Sound Wall Display
Build a classroom sound wall to match your phonics programs and literacy progressions with a printable sound wall display.